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>> the faa's budget is immense. it's contractors, consultants, it's matter of sitting down and prioritizing and saying what do we need now? what can we put off until later? i mean their budget is huge and to do this on the backs of the controllers on the front line is so incredibly wrong, it feels like you are a character in a remake of "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" sometimes. >> bill: interesting. i'm thinking back to ronald reagan, and here again the air traffic controllers are being beat up in this. >> yeah we're more profile when you see things like that. and it will make the biggest impact. sequestration was supposed to be so bad that there's no way we will go down that road. well, we're here. so let's stop playing political games with the national air space system. >> bill: is there a safety issue, jim? >> i would say that as this goes on, there are absolutely safety concerns in place. we are, again, looking at the closures of those 149 towers come june that will add to the work load of an already stressed
>> the faa's budget is immense. it's contractors, consultants, it's matter of sitting down and prioritizing and saying what do we need now? what can we put off until later? i mean their budget is huge and to do this on the backs of the controllers on the front line is so incredibly wrong, it feels like you are a character in a remake of "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" sometimes. >> bill: interesting. i'm thinking back to ronald reagan, and here again the air traffic...
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, so the faa could shift $253 billion -- $253 million from one part of their budget to another part of the budget get around the sequester, and put all of the air traffic controllers back to work so there won't be any flight delays. now notice -- and i know you are going to want to talk about this. you may think it's a good idea. i think it's a horrible idea. i can't believe that so many democrats voted for it, fell for this, bragged about it. i can't believe that the white house is supporting it. because notice what happens. the sequester has really kicked in, in many ways to hurt a lot of people out there. right? the sequester had kicked in and thrown i don't know how many millions of kids off of head start. headquarter demolished. what does the congress do? nothing. meals on wheels, a lot of people thrown out of meals on wheels what did the congress do? nothing. food stamp programs reports across the country, state after state after state have to cut their food stamp program the poor depend on what did the congress do? nothing. the military has said we have had to delay sending new
, so the faa could shift $253 billion -- $253 million from one part of their budget to another part of the budget get around the sequester, and put all of the air traffic controllers back to work so there won't be any flight delays. now notice -- and i know you are going to want to talk about this. you may think it's a good idea. i think it's a horrible idea. i can't believe that so many democrats voted for it, fell for this, bragged about it. i can't believe that the white house is supporting...
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a deal right now with no taxes on the faa. and people tend to blame the president more than the 535 members of congress over this thing. and i think there is political concern over there. >> bill: how can the white house square then, right being so concerned about the flight delays and not concerned about all of the kids getting cut out of heard start or people getting cut out of meals on wheels? >> good question. >> bill: i'm surprised the white house -- >> but they -- again, you have to remember that when they were originally negotiating on this they were the ones who suggested the delay in the first place, so that they are now supporting another delay isn't that surprising, because this has been an approach that they used. >> bill: is the white house saying we'll support the delay as long as we get new revenues at the end of it david? >> carney leads off with saying we still want a long-term debt deal that includes new revenues, but if they look at this faa patch, if you will that reid is talking about, they are trying to c
a deal right now with no taxes on the faa. and people tend to blame the president more than the 535 members of congress over this thing. and i think there is political concern over there. >> bill: how can the white house square then, right being so concerned about the flight delays and not concerned about all of the kids getting cut out of heard start or people getting cut out of meals on wheels? >> good question. >> bill: i'm surprised the white house -- >> but they --...
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faa being fixed to if you are lows. nothing seems to rise. main they don't have powerful lobbyists but the airline industry does. >> they write the big checks. >> when the sequester first started happening and it was like it's not a big deal. i was going it is affecting people outside of the beltway bubble and because it's not affecting you doesn't mean it's not happening. the mainstream media, with airline travel was oh, my god. >> here is what i don't understand, that why would president obama sign the bill? i tried to get an answer out of jay carney on friday to this. they keep saying, you know it's a band-aid approach. we don't like it. it's not the way to go but they are going to sign this bill. >> had a lot of discussion about that last week, and my understanding is that there were enough votes to congress to override a veto. the question, i guess, for the administration is do you want to be seen as a person who is trying to stop getting people back to work even if you don't agree to the approach and they don't i think they felt like th
faa being fixed to if you are lows. nothing seems to rise. main they don't have powerful lobbyists but the airline industry does. >> they write the big checks. >> when the sequester first started happening and it was like it's not a big deal. i was going it is affecting people outside of the beltway bubble and because it's not affecting you doesn't mean it's not happening. the mainstream media, with airline travel was oh, my god. >> here is what i don't understand, that why...
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faa's operations budget is personnel. the faa must furlough 47,000 employees for up to 11 days between now and the end of the fiscal year. >> bill: the bottom line is you can't have it both ways. you cannot say we want the sequester. we're going to let the sequester happen. and then bitch and moan every time the sequester has a real impact in the real world. which it is happening. before this, maybe it was just in areas where most people who are -- upper middle class or wealthy, didn't feel any pain. programs like head start or food stamps or meals on wheels, right. didn't affect me. because i got a good life. well now you know, you're getting on a plane to go somewhere and you have a two-hour delay serves you right. only one way to get rid of this which is get rid of the sequester and have some sensible cuts not just these mad across-the-board cuts and if republicans really don't like what's happening, get rid of the sequester. one other issue immigration. immigration reform has a head of steam because there are -- this
faa's operations budget is personnel. the faa must furlough 47,000 employees for up to 11 days between now and the end of the fiscal year. >> bill: the bottom line is you can't have it both ways. you cannot say we want the sequester. we're going to let the sequester happen. and then bitch and moan every time the sequester has a real impact in the real world. which it is happening. before this, maybe it was just in areas where most people who are -- upper middle class or wealthy, didn't...
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going to lose 750,000 jobs that the pentagon is going to furlough 800,000 civilian employees, that faa is laying off air traffic controllers, furloughing, that the homeland security is furloughing close to 60,000, i think, border guards and they are worried about the white house tours. and the white house tours, i have been on several of them, and i know a lot of the members of the secret service. the white house tours are not conducted by -- but they are possible because the secret service is there. they are the ones that staff the white house as the tours go through, and the secret service has to cut back too, and if they kept the white house tours they would have to move agents away from protecting the president or vice president or protecting the grounds, which they won't do so they came to the white house and said we got to cut back somewhere, and here is the easiest way to cut back, and the white house said fine we won't have any white house tours, but the bottom line is the republicans are just cry babies. they want the sequester, but they don't want to mated that the sequester
going to lose 750,000 jobs that the pentagon is going to furlough 800,000 civilian employees, that faa is laying off air traffic controllers, furloughing, that the homeland security is furloughing close to 60,000, i think, border guards and they are worried about the white house tours. and the white house tours, i have been on several of them, and i know a lot of the members of the secret service. the white house tours are not conducted by -- but they are possible because the secret service is...
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this time, they're fixing the faa. it took less than a week of people's flights being delayed before congress got that done. >> bill: without public hearings or posting the bills everybody like they do. the reform was they're going to put it up. three days ahead of time. so everybody would have a chance to hear it and comment. they ended up with a misspelling. >> show up on the hill thursday morning. and left early to go to dinner, you might not have known that happened. that's how fast it happened. >> bill: unbelievable. now what is the prospect of getting another vote -- let me play a clip from our briefing at the white house yesterday. jay carney was asked about this. we know you guys haven't given up. so when do you intend to bring this bill back? >> i wouldn't want to predict at this point whether that means you know, we'll get this done sooner rather than later but we will get it done because it is the right and sensible and common sense thing to do. >> bill: i hear both sides. i'm sure you do, too. your thoughts
this time, they're fixing the faa. it took less than a week of people's flights being delayed before congress got that done. >> bill: without public hearings or posting the bills everybody like they do. the reform was they're going to put it up. three days ahead of time. so everybody would have a chance to hear it and comment. they ended up with a misspelling. >> show up on the hill thursday morning. and left early to go to dinner, you might not have known that happened. that's how...
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said it would be no big deal nobody would even notice, well they have already been proven wrong, the faa has already sent furloughs out to air traffic
said it would be no big deal nobody would even notice, well they have already been proven wrong, the faa has already sent furloughs out to air traffic
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the president the president did he have fended signing this faa bill. do you think he made a sale? >> he is going to do it. so, it doesn't really matter. it's signing it. he is the president. we are created an exception for the faa under sequester. >> don't you think this does as i have been arguing, open the door for other people with other exceptions? >> absolutely. this completely opens the door. the whole point was that nobody gets an exception. the sequester is supposed to be painful. nobody is supposed to like it. we are supposed to all feel the hurt. now, they are making an exception for travel delays at airports which affect who? it affects the affluent. it does not affect -- it's what we see in everyday life. it's what congressmen see and feel. if we create an exception for air traffic delays, why not create exceptions for people on head start who are getting kicked out? what about food stamp recipients getting cut off? what about cancer patients who are now not getting their vaccinations because of sec ration? those people don't have advocates lobbying for them on capitol
the president the president did he have fended signing this faa bill. do you think he made a sale? >> he is going to do it. so, it doesn't really matter. it's signing it. he is the president. we are created an exception for the faa under sequester. >> don't you think this does as i have been arguing, open the door for other people with other exceptions? >> absolutely. this completely opens the door. the whole point was that nobody gets an exception. the sequester is supposed...
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they did what people thought would be impossible but in one day, they passed a bill to exempt the faa from the sequester, at least allow them to change funds around so they could put all of the air-traffic controllers back to work so there will be no delays on their flights home. is this the most important thing congress could do? does this mean we won't worry about the other cuts that the sequester has made to other programs? arthur delaney from "huffington post" is all over the story. he joins us to talk about it. hey, arthur, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> bill: the young mr. delaney. if you look at "huffington post" this morning sequester fester. devastating meals on wheels. cuts top story on "huffington post" today and it is yours. >> that's right. >> bill: congratulations. you get paid extra when you make the front page? >> if i have a story that doesn't get 100 comments, i'll get fired. so it is not -- [ laughter ] >> it is just my job. >> it is not positive reinforcement. it is negative reinforcement. >> bill: all right. so the gist of it is, you're saying, that one o
they did what people thought would be impossible but in one day, they passed a bill to exempt the faa from the sequester, at least allow them to change funds around so they could put all of the air-traffic controllers back to work so there will be no delays on their flights home. is this the most important thing congress could do? does this mean we won't worry about the other cuts that the sequester has made to other programs? arthur delaney from "huffington post" is all over the...
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. $232 million cut from the faa. that's big money. $512 million cut from customs and border protection. you know, these are all already taking place. it is already out there. $928 million cut from fema. $928. that's almost a billion dollars cut from fema. you think this country has benefited from fema recently? i think we have. just look at katrina and sandy and other tragedies that have hit us. also in yesterday's press briefing jay carney fielding a variety of questions. somebody did ask him about dennis rodman going to north korea by the way. you knew somebody was going to ask him about that. he had to field that question. he talked about sort of keeping hope alive that we get something done in this government. >> there is a caucus of common sense out there, lawmakers in both parties who understand that we need to do tough things to achieve entitlement reforms because that's the right thing for our economy. we need to do tough things on tax reform, tough things for republicans. >> peter: let's see what happens. i
. $232 million cut from the faa. that's big money. $512 million cut from customs and border protection. you know, these are all already taking place. it is already out there. $928 million cut from fema. $928. that's almost a billion dollars cut from fema. you think this country has benefited from fema recently? i think we have. just look at katrina and sandy and other tragedies that have hit us. also in yesterday's press briefing jay carney fielding a variety of questions. somebody did ask him...
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like we saw 800 employees in the pentagon of the it's going to require if you are lows, also in the faa among air traffic controllers and the fewer air traffic controllers on the job means secretary lahood: >> flights to major cities like new york, chicago, and san francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we have fewer controllers on staff. >> bill: the secretary said, but, by the way, that over looks -- he didn't talk about tsa because it's not part of the department of transportation. but a lot longer lines juv getting through security and then delays up to 90 minutes, you heard him say. he knows that the -- is certain that the airlines will, as a result of those long delays end up cancelling he gave a list out there. go to dot.gov and you can find it, a list of all of the smaller, regional airports in the country, that they are just going to simply shut down. they just will not have enough air traffic controllers to handle places. i remember, too, that he mentioned were boca raton, florida, and hilton head and i am not sure which ones
like we saw 800 employees in the pentagon of the it's going to require if you are lows, also in the faa among air traffic controllers and the fewer air traffic controllers on the job means secretary lahood: >> flights to major cities like new york, chicago, and san francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we have fewer controllers on staff. >> bill: the secretary said, but, by the way, that over looks -- he didn't talk about tsa...
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the faa this week issued -- what do they call them? requests for proposals right. they distributed those sent those out today to establish six new training centers in the united states for the use of drones. so i mean, this is growing and growing and growing. and it's just time for all of us to ask these questions and demand answers and that, again is what rand paul did yesterday. we'll talk more about rand paul a little bit later. next segment. we'll take a break to take a look at where the economy is going. and the dow on top of setting one record on tuesday they set another record yesterday. derek thompson from the atlantic joins us in the next segment. >> announcer: radio meets television the "bill press show." now on current tv. now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hel
the faa this week issued -- what do they call them? requests for proposals right. they distributed those sent those out today to establish six new training centers in the united states for the use of drones. so i mean, this is growing and growing and growing. and it's just time for all of us to ask these questions and demand answers and that, again is what rand paul did yesterday. we'll talk more about rand paul a little bit later. next segment. we'll take a break to take a look at where the...
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. >> bill: the faa is doing a good job. the government is doing a good job. and also they won't allow you to fly in certain weather conditions. and the radar and those bad weather technology, you know, whatever, for the pilots has gotten a lot better. there you go. imagine that. >> every time somebody whines about how they're scared of air travel, let them know the statistics. >> bill: fly the friendly skies and the safe skies. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. stop looking at car interiors. get inspired by other stuff. yep. yep. ok. sure. why not? woah. touchscreens. put that in your dash. now, luxury stuff. make your seats like that. that thing has wifi, why doesn't your car? you can't do that. ignore that guy. give it w
. >> bill: the faa is doing a good job. the government is doing a good job. and also they won't allow you to fly in certain weather conditions. and the radar and those bad weather technology, you know, whatever, for the pilots has gotten a lot better. there you go. imagine that. >> every time somebody whines about how they're scared of air travel, let them know the statistics. >> bill: fly the friendly skies and the safe skies. >> announcer: this is the "bill press...
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now, you voted against this deal which would have -- which carved out a great big exception for the faa. that's not the way to go with the sequester is it? >> no. the sequester is -- the line i used bill is sequester is a word that starts with s which stands for stupid. it is a mindless, common sense-defying policy which says you cut the highest priority expenditures and the lowest priority expenditures, the same amount. no family would do that. no american business would do that and stay in business. while i argued for is yes, we needed to fix the particular item that was under consideration dealing with the faa but we needed to fix all of it. chris van hollen who you had on earlier has offered four times an amendment which got the same savings, same deficit reduction but did so in a way that every bipartisan group has recommended through a combination of cuts and additional revenues, getting to the same deficit reduction. but the republicans have refused -- no one voted against it. they didn't vote against it. they didn't allow us to vote for it. they refused to allow that to even be
now, you voted against this deal which would have -- which carved out a great big exception for the faa. that's not the way to go with the sequester is it? >> no. the sequester is -- the line i used bill is sequester is a word that starts with s which stands for stupid. it is a mindless, common sense-defying policy which says you cut the highest priority expenditures and the lowest priority expenditures, the same amount. no family would do that. no american business would do that and stay...
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. >> dan: so tall it needs faa approval. the 650 foot tall structure needs to be approved so they are sure it won't interfere with air traffic. it will be about half as fall as the stratosphere title at the south end of the strip. >> bill: you can see it easily where they are building it. but the thing is the airport in las vegas is almost right on the strip. >> yeah. >> bill: i don't know if you have flown into vegas. >> dan: absolutely. >> bill: taxiing to the airport and it looks like you are driving up the strip, the hotels are so close, on the south end. so that will be a great site on that ferris wheel. >> dan: that's a rollercoaster, i am probably for the going to go on >> bill: even if you are sober. most people won't be. love to get your tame on the nsa this morning after the latest yesterday from the hill. so, before he left for europe president obama giving his interview for charlie rose and he said -- we talked about this monday. he totally defended the program the nsa program, said if the american people really
. >> dan: so tall it needs faa approval. the 650 foot tall structure needs to be approved so they are sure it won't interfere with air traffic. it will be about half as fall as the stratosphere title at the south end of the strip. >> bill: you can see it easily where they are building it. but the thing is the airport in las vegas is almost right on the strip. >> yeah. >> bill: i don't know if you have flown into vegas. >> dan: absolutely. >> bill: taxiing to...